My fabulous partner Emma Yang and I were tasked with merging two objects into a self-supporting, hollow, 3D printable object that would eventually be merged with another group's object. Bryan kicked of the class by making the class do at least six object concepts for merging. Then we were to choose our favorite three, and propose ways to hybrid the objects. The favorite three for each of our designs were placed in the foreground for easy reading.
Emma's Roughs:
My (Kitt's) Roughs:
My roughs photo is a little harder to read, my favorites were the fancy hourglass, the clothed table, and the tambourine with a rock jutting out of the top. We observed that the prominent features of most of my objects were the coin-like extrusions that circled the object. Noting that, we moved on to Emma's roughs, and threw some ideas at each other. Taking the coin-like extrusions and putting them on one of Emma's objects seemed like a good way to marry the ideas, but we wanted more ideas than just that. Emma suggested taking her phone and putting it in between the fancy hourglass's extrusions, making a futuristic phone-booth design. Otherwise we humored setting, replication, and replacing parts of the objects. Alot of the ideas ended up being too steep in places (meaning it would require support material) or they would plateau before the top, which would also ruin the self supporting quality.
Here are the five drafts that came from our discussion:
Now, I thought that Emma's Phone booth Idea was absolutely wonderful, so I wanted to run with it for the final, but when we made the object and previewed it in the 3D slicer, the angle of the phone heads were to steep for printing, and we would've made a disaster if we tried to print it. So we talked over a quick render I drafted for the fancy jar idea. I added an inward angle on the coins so they would also function as usable handles to pick the jar up with. We agreed that the jar was a good fusion of our ideas, and yet simple enough to still be merged with another group's object in the next assignment. So we ran with it, planning for the future.
Fancy Hourglass:
Jar:
Fancy Jar:
As you can probably tell, we had to open up the top of the jar, and get rid of the thickness from the original. But otherwise this jar was the fusion we settled on.
Thank you Emma for being a great partner!
Stay tuned for the next post where we go through the actual printing process!
- Kitt
Emma's Roughs:
My (Kitt's) Roughs:
My roughs photo is a little harder to read, my favorites were the fancy hourglass, the clothed table, and the tambourine with a rock jutting out of the top. We observed that the prominent features of most of my objects were the coin-like extrusions that circled the object. Noting that, we moved on to Emma's roughs, and threw some ideas at each other. Taking the coin-like extrusions and putting them on one of Emma's objects seemed like a good way to marry the ideas, but we wanted more ideas than just that. Emma suggested taking her phone and putting it in between the fancy hourglass's extrusions, making a futuristic phone-booth design. Otherwise we humored setting, replication, and replacing parts of the objects. Alot of the ideas ended up being too steep in places (meaning it would require support material) or they would plateau before the top, which would also ruin the self supporting quality.
Here are the five drafts that came from our discussion:
Now, I thought that Emma's Phone booth Idea was absolutely wonderful, so I wanted to run with it for the final, but when we made the object and previewed it in the 3D slicer, the angle of the phone heads were to steep for printing, and we would've made a disaster if we tried to print it. So we talked over a quick render I drafted for the fancy jar idea. I added an inward angle on the coins so they would also function as usable handles to pick the jar up with. We agreed that the jar was a good fusion of our ideas, and yet simple enough to still be merged with another group's object in the next assignment. So we ran with it, planning for the future.
Fancy Hourglass:
Jar:
Fancy Jar:
As you can probably tell, we had to open up the top of the jar, and get rid of the thickness from the original. But otherwise this jar was the fusion we settled on.
Thank you Emma for being a great partner!
Stay tuned for the next post where we go through the actual printing process!
- Kitt
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